Kota Ezawa's "Beatles Über Alles"

Don't forget the world described here is the NewAge cult hell you fucking moron meditating hippie freaks are trying to create, with your goddamned recycled Whole Food organic health trip obsession, you fucking losers - you even brought Jerry Brown back (and people are calling Obama's term "Carter II") you fucking idiots. Click the tags at the bottom of the post to see how many other ways you've already willingly gone down the road to becoming as much like Nazis as possible:

I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles
And never frowns
Soon I will be president…

Carter power will soon go away
I will be Führer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school

California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California

Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can't happen here
Big Bro' on white horse is near
The hippies won't come back you say
Mellow out or you will pay

California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California

Now it is 1984
Knock knock at your front door
It's the suede/denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece

Come quietly to the camp
You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don't you worry, it's only a shower
For your clothes here's a pretty flower…

DIE on organic poison gas
Serpent's egg's already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown

California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California

Once You Get It, Wear It like A Badge Of Honor

Here is a message everyone should get firmly in their mind. So firmly it should practically cripple your brain (as it does ours) when you're confronted with a situation that demands you use it:

They all say they aren't "woo-woo" people, don't they? In fact, if you hear someone on a show about a faith healer say they're a skeptic or "not a woo-woo person" you can be pretty sure that she either has just said or is about to say something that proves she is a woo-woo person.

Now, we know what you're thinking:

Notice it says "she"? Whatever. The question is, do they "all" say they're not woo-woo people?

Well, let us ask you this:

With all the NewAge stuff around - from aura readings to the zodiac - when was the last time you actually heard someone, with their own mouths, openly claim they were NewAge?

Come on, somebody's going to all those psychics planted around America, right?

And somebody's buying those Homeopathic "medicines" in Whole Foods, making it a $12 billion industry.

And somebody's watching Oprah and making The Secret a world-wide bestseller - and yet, somehow, nobody's claiming to be NewAge.

Not even Oprah.

Now why is that?

Right here, we'll let Chris Locke AKA Rageboy explain it to you:

Stop me if you've heard this before. My inspiration, if you could call it that, was the painful death of an important relationship. She always protested that she was not New Age. You've heard that one before, for sure. "Who me? Oh, I'm not New Age!" We've all heard it. Only terminal cases ever admit to the proclivity. Maybe the last gasp of those people who recently died in James Arthur Ray's Sedona sweat lodge was "Oh fuck, I guess I am New Age!" But of course, we'll never know if, even then, the denial was finally overcome. When you get right down to it, nobody wants to be seen as New Age because nobody wants to be seen as irreparably stupid.

Now, here, we at TMR would like to point out a really super-duper important distinction:

That even though nobody wants to be SEEN as New Age, there are quite a few people who don't mind actually BEING NewAge.

What's important is to lie about it, to pull the wool over other's eyes, to deceive as many as possible, as much as possible, and as often as possible - so as to feel smarter than others and make cockamamy ideas, like your Aunt Bernice becoming a "Reiki Master", or that woman in Human Resources who moonlights as a "Psychic Priestess", seem as everyday normal as you are.

But they're not as everyday normal as you are. Because you're normal.

And there's nothing normal about NewAge.

Something Concrete

"Members of Parliament who criticised homeopathy have badly knotted chakras and are emitting an unhealthy purple aura, it was claimed last night.


As a committee of MPs said the not-medicine was 14 times less efficient than writing a letter to Jesus, homeopaths claimed the report had no credibility because it had not been buried for two weeks in a cocoon of damp horse chestnut leaves, directly over the right kind of ley line."

-- The Daily Mash

It's Hard To Grasp How Truly Crazy People Are

"Trigger the Light—trigger the Light, the Light, the Light. Trigger the Love—trigger the Love, the Love, the Love... So now, I Hari Das Melchizedek ask at this moment on behalf of all human beings present, the removals first of all twin souls—NOW! [Pause] Now, the removal of all androgynous beings—NOW! Out! Out! [Pause] Now, the removal of all ties to multi-dimensional, parallel universes, and all impediments and inhibitors that stop all ones here from realizing their God Selves. I remove all now. [Pause] Now I ask and demand the removal of all other energies, all other beings from the energy fields of the physical bodies of all present—NOW! [Pause] I also now remove all implants from the physical and the spiritual bodies—NOW! [Pause] Now I also remove all attachments, hooks, multidimensional wormholes, and all other binding energies from everybody’s chakras and everybody’s aura—NOW! [Pause]"

-- Shamballa Multidimensional Healing Free Reiki Master Attunement & Training

Hat Tip: Mystic Bourgeoisie

Big Heads, Big Money, And Even Bigger Beats

"Aura dazzles, but argument gets things done. Consider the debate on the Democrats' health care bill and the increasingly negative response to Barack Obama's performance. Democrats have the numbers to pass a health care bill -- 256 votes in the House, 38 more than the 218 majority; 60 votes in the Senate, enough to defeat a filibuster. But they haven't come up with the arguments, at least yet, to put those numbers on the board. It's something not many predicted that bright January inauguration morning.

We knew that day that Obama was good at aura, at generating enthusiasm for the prospect of hope and change. His inspiring speeches -- the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Des Moines, the race speech in Philadelphia, the countless rallies in primary and caucus and target states -- helped him capture the Democratic nomination and then win the presidency by the biggest percentage margin in 20 years.

But it turns out that Obama is not so good at argument. Inspiration is one thing, persuasion another. He created the impression on the campaign trail that he was familiar with major issues and readily ticked off his positions on them. But he has not proved so good at legislating.

One reason, perhaps, is that he has had little practice."

-- Michael Barone, admitting he saw something that was never there - Barack Obama's "aura" - allowing a nobody to become somebody, to The Washington Examiner.

Sorry it took me so long to get the first post up, but I've been arguing with my "special" liberal scientist, The Mighty, Mighty Orac, after he exhibited one of the liberal-of-today's favorite tendencies - anti-white racism. I would offer to buy him a ticket to Barack's house for the "beerfest", with Henry Louis Gates and Officer Crowley, but I just don't think that little "education" session is going to prove to be the right call,...


I'll be poking in-and-out today, so give me a few thought-provoking comments - preferably not anonymously - and even consider making a donation (My roommate - who's kinda liberal but getting there - after telling me how different my offline personality is to my online persona, suggested I ask, "Wouldn't you like to see this kind of conservative in a Rolls?") all of which would be greatly appreciated:

Being a professional asshole is a really lonely job.

And BTW: As I've said, many times, none of this money is going for anything as silly as a Rolls Royce, but to turn this guy:

Into a conservative version of this guy:

And that, I assure you, is a goal worth donating to - for me and you.

See you in a bit,

CMC

You Dummies Are Doing It Again

Aura: (n.) A general impression produced by a predominant quality or characteristic: air, ambience, atmosphere, feel, feeling, mood, tone.

A single word explains why Barack Obama might be president. Aura perfectly describes the Democratic candidate. An aura, the dictionary says, is the distinctive, but intangible air that surrounds a person. It derives from the ancient Greek, meaning breath or gentle breeze. I particularly like the third definition, which says an aura is "the supposed emanation surrounding the body of a living creature, viewed by mystics, spiritualists and some practitioners of complementary medicine as the essence of the individual and allegedly discernible by people with special sensibilities."

Those of us with below-average sensibilities can only ponder how Obama has managed to establish a cult of personality the way no other presidential candidate has, except perhaps John F. Kennedy. Yes, Obama says what many Americans want to hear and how they want to hear it. But something is creepy about how Americans are running to embrace what is essentially a method. As ethereal as Obama's aura might be, nothing in the Republican quiver can fight it. Past or present affiliations--be they with violent radicals, racist ministers, convicted fixers and the corrupt Chicago political machine--can't fight the aura.

Obama's aura overcomes his inexperience, his most liberal voting record and his outright deceptions (e.g. reneging on his pledge to take public campaign financing, and thereby limiting his campaign advertising).

We could have 10 more presidential debates over the differences between Obama and John McCain on foreign policy, Immigration, the economy, government ethics and so on, but it wouldn't matter. Intricate policy differences between the two don't matter, because only aura counts. Because of his aura, Obama can engage in a presidential debate, and his aloofness and one-note message of "change" will be misinterpreted by burbling commentators as thoughtful, calm and intelligent discourse. His aura explains why his handlers can get away with slamming McCain for his allegedly negative campaigning, even at times when he is simply disagreeing with Obama's policies.

We are about to elect a president because of how he makes us feel, not how he makes us think.

That says a bundle about an undemanding electorate. Yes, Obama has policies, and he enunciates them eloquently, and a lot of people support them; but notice is mostly taken of his delivery, not of his substance. Voters, never, ever have elected a president with policies this far to the left; rare, indeed, is the senator or congressman who is further left. (Note to conservatives: Stop calling Obama a socialist. It doesn't do your cause any good, and besides, he isn't, in the strict Marxist definition of the state owning the means of production. Obama is just a Hyde Park liberal, a sui generis kind of extreme leftist who uses words like "sui generis." Talk, instead, about how McCain is mainstream. Although, I also doubt that McCain's more centrist positions can stand up to aura either.)

Having aura is fine, but electing a president based on whether he or she possesses it shows curious understanding of how democracy is supposed to work.

— Dennis Byrne, showing how awful the mass media is by being almost alone in voicing what this site (almost alone as well) has been railing about all along, but doing it in the seemingly unpopular form of Real Clear Politics.

Sorry, Ducks: No Quackery Around Here

[Dr Morton Rawlin] said just because a therapy was mentioned in the curriculum did not mean it would be taught as fact. "This faculty will allow people to say 'this is the real evidence', and when somebody wants to do aura therapy, something like that, this group can say 'there's no evidence, it's not worth pursuing'."

-- Nick Miller, on how Australia's professional college of GPs will teach "alternative" medicine, for The Age

The Halos Of Barack Obama

More from Dorothy:

"I honestly don’t know whether to put this in religion or politics. I honestly feel the passion for Senator Obama expressed by most of his followers has equal elements of both - even if they deny it. But I suspect the moderators would move it here to politics if I put it in religion, so here it is in politics. I know this will make many people angry (primarily Obama followers), but I am not looking to debate. I just wanted to display some of the images of Obama because I find the whole media’s marketing - in this case, just the visual elements- behind the man so fascinating.

The Obama Mania and Mass Hysteria (because that’s exactly what it is) that swept Senator Barack Obama to where he currently is was greatly helped by a friendly media eager to see him President. In that regard they have undertaken an effort to visually display Obama as a godlike messiah figure."

-- From the Center For Inquiry.net forum

Check out the link for more photos. It's pretty impressive. Dorothy adds:

From a website describing symbols:

"A Halo, is a symbolic representation of the aura, or nimbus of light believed in many cultures to surround a Godly or enlightened person. It is used in art, especially Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu religious images, to depict holiness. The practice is probably a holdover from the identification of deities with the sun."

And there's this:

"It was not long before the German people were prepared to take the short step of seeing Hitler, not as a man, but as a Messiah of Germany. Public meetings and particularly the Nurnburg took on a religious atmosphere. All the stagings were designed to create a supernatural and religious attitude and Hitler's entry was more befitting a god than a man. In Berlin one of the large art shops on Unter dean Linden exhibited a large portrait of Hitler in the center of its display window. Hitler's portrait was entirely surrounded as though by a halo, with various copies of a painting of Christ (High, 453)."

Would we even notice if it happened again?

Of course, this isn't to suggest Barack Obama is Hitler, but it pays to be aware of propaganda techniques. I mean, no one's feinting at other politicians rallies,...